Working at the house

We have been soooo busy over the last couple weeks that I really don't remember where I left off with the updates.

We are officially in the house and out of the townhouse. Brad and Dave were awesome enough to come and help out with the move. Audra, Patty, and Maria we to the house to clean up a little while Dave, Brad, Tony, and I packed the truck. We ended up getting the truck packed in about an hour and a half and then were on the way to Lancaster. It only ended up taking about 40 minutes to unload the truck, which rocked.

We had a little while to get the townhouse cleaned out, but we ended up waiting until the last moment. It took two solid evenings but we got it done. Our landlord said that we left the place beautiful and we got all of our security deposit back. Nice.

We've just been doing a bunch of organizing lately. It's slow going, but we'll get it done. Tony and Patty came down this weekend and helped us with a ton of stuff. Patty and Audra started tearing through boxes and finding homes for all of our stuff. Patty is crazy fast with that. Tony and I spent our time out in the yard. The previous owners of our house didn't really pay too much attention to the outside, so we had a decent amount of cleanup to perform. I picked up a bunch of sticks and raked the top portion of the yard while Tony removed some grass plants that we had by the garage. I also removed an old tree stump while the trimmed the bush out front. After all was said and done, we filled 9 55 gallon trash bags with crap from the yard.

Tony and Audra went down the Stauffers and bought a bunch of plants for the outside. We now have a dogwood variant and a couple nice little bushes. Tony was explaining them all to me, but it went right over my head. Horticulture is one thing in which I've never really been interested. Luckily for me, I have a father in law that loves digging around flower mounds.

Tony and Patty came back today to finish planting the bushes and unpacking some more. We went to breakfast at Dennys and then stopped at Lowes. I'm really surprised that they don't know my name there yet. Anyhoo, Tony got us a bunch of mulch, a seed spreader, grass seed and fertilizer. This is on top of the gardening hardware that he bought us yesterday. Audra and I picked up some tiki torches and something else. What was it? Oh yeah--NEW GRILL. If you moo or oink, you'd better run from me. I love this grill. It's a Charbroil with 4 burners, a side burner, and 50,000 BTUs of bovine torching power. Oh yeah.

Audra and I tore up a batch of mega-burgers tonight. I'm still in my dinner coma a little, so I think I'm going to chill out with the pooch and watch some tube. I posted some new pictures on my Picasa and Facebook pages. Until later, peace out.

Posted on May 4, 2008 in section Family | 1 Comment

Home Fixing: Days 5 - Present

As you've noticed, the updates have stopped as we got closer to the moving date. I'll update again soon. Seriously.

Posted on April 23, 2008 in section Family | 1 Comment

Home fixing: Days 3 & 4

And what a fun filled weekend this has been. Audra and I went up to the house yesterday morning so we could take delivery of our fancy new fridge. It's funny how appliances don't look as big in the store. The two gents showed up around 10 to drop it off and had to pretty much take it apart to get it in the kitchen. Apparently our door frames are 30 inches, and the fridge was 31 inches with the hinges attached.

After the fridge arrived, we got to work priming the bedroom. That room looked like the Grape Ape exploded in it. My parents rolled in as I was finishing the fourth wall. We proceeded to give them the nickel tour and then we went out to grab some lunch. After getting back from lunch and saying bye to the 'rents, we got back to work. Audra taped one of the bedrooms that we're going to use as an office and I started painting the ceiling in the Ape room. I finished that and then helped Audra prime the upstairs bedroom and then we were out of there around 9pm. It was a really long day.

Then came today. Audra's mom and sister came over to help paint. They knocked out the bedroom painting and then attacked the other bedroom. After that, the ladies taped the shelfs in the dining room while I prepped the living room and painted the ceiling. We were lazy and called it a day around 5:30.

We already decided that we're not doing anything related to moving tomorrow night. Audra has been packing at night, and I've been up at the house almost every night since we bought the place. I have class on Tuesday so it looks like I won't be working at the house until Wednesday.

Here's a before and after of our bedroom.

Posted on April 6, 2008 in section Family | 2 Comments